Connecticut western news., 1887-03-23
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 MT Beecher once said that the pota- toes he raised on the Peekskill farm cost him about $l apiece.
 A Detroit young woman has refused 30 offers of marriage in three months. She recently inherited $25O. 900.
 A writer in The Scientific American says that in experiences in Colorado and Utah he never saw an Indian with a cold. He concludes that 1t is our hot rooms which give us colds.
 The Hartford Asylum street bridge commission has finally decided upon the " overhead plan" to be adopted for the station and troublesome crossing at that point.
 A woman writes to the Philadelphia Press to request that the " remarks of a physician about men killing their wives with tobacco be very frequently re- printed"
 The Whitestone steamer Idlewild collided with and sank the schooner A. w. Thompson near Winfield, l.. l., last Saturday morning. Three of the schooner's crew were lost.
 Winsted and Torrington people have recently been swindled out of small sums by sharpers doing business under the name of "The St Andrews Bay Railroad, Land Mining Go.
 It is now suspected that the deaths at Auburndale, Mass of the Rev. William T. Rowland and wife, which were nearly simultaneous, were due to poi soned candy which the reverend gentle man bought in Montreal.
 The labor bill before the New York Legislature proposes an income tax of | per cent on incomes of from $2OOO to $3OOO, 2 per cent on from 5000 to $1O,OOO, per cent on from $lO,O00 to $500 and 20 per cent on from $50, 900 to SlOO,OOO, and 50 per cent on $100,0 900 and upward.
 The Masons are making @ heroic and successful effort to drive out the black sheep who get into their ranks snow and then. Such a reflection as that of one of them, who said. 'sI cannot go to New York but what every bar-keeper and saloon-hanger claims fraternity, :" does not hold against them very long.
 The Webotuck correspondent of the Amenia Times says : w. x c. w. Hall have sold out their whole stock to Wm. Burdick of Poquag. Consideration $93O. There are people who will buy anything on sight if they are allowed to pay for 1t on time .. All those people who want the earth will have to be con tented at last with | hole in the ground.
 It is reported that Emperor William, on receiving the French General Mar quis d'Abzac, said ''Tell your com patriots that there is no danger of war. So long as I live I shall use all my influence to maintain peace. God will soon call me to Himself. I do not wish to leave my people heritage of blood. Germany shares my desire for good relations with France"
 It is said that Henry Prescott is one of seven tramps who lodged at the Thomaston lookup one night last week. He was formerly a lawyer in Litchfield, and is the man who as counsel for the Paddy Ryan gang furnished a key to the man Higgins by which he un- locked his handcuffs and escaped while being taken to state prison.- Wlnsted Press.
 The young women of Washington have been enjoying Lent very much. Said one the other day: II am doing just as much as during the winter. l spend the time taking long walks, divid, ing up the walks with all the men l know-like we did the waltzes all win ter-and the rest of the time l am with either the dressmaker or the milliner, getting ready my new spring clothes. Lent is just as lovely as it can be.
 Rev S. R. Free, of Willimantic, who was condemned by his own church fol teaching heresy, was brought before the Windham county association of Con gregationai ministers on Wednesday March 9, to answer the charges brought against him. Before proceeding, how had no jurisdiction and adjourned. The matter will not be allowed to rest, anc new body is to be convened to try him on the charges. Mir Free intend: to show fight, as he has the society tt back him, although his church con demn him Religious Herald. Col Frank B. Stockbridge built al elegant residence, which far exceeded his expectations in the matter of cost as all such enterprises have a vicious way of doing. When 1t was completed friend asked the colonel if he wa through with the work; to which ht replied, "Yes, it's all done but on' thing. am going to buy a parrot ant place it at the front door, and teach l so that every time I enter the bird vii say, Hello, you old foolp" "
 The tax collector has broken loos again. He does not go up and dow1 | the land like raging lion. He select his feeding place and sends out wor( l through our advertising columns to hi chosen victims to meet him there ant be devoured. He is the scourge of na l tions, yet the wise man will not pass b, on the other side. For the wise ma
 has already labored with the assessors he has made out his own list, he ha 1 sworn that it is correct according to hi best knowledge and belief, so help hin God.-[ [Wnsted Press.
 Says the Litchfeld Enquirer Tn death of MT Beecher renews interestsl l the residence of his fathers fanlll ] here. Dr Lyman Beecher came to thi
 place in 19l1 and remained 15 years He was married three times and had l
 children The church in which h
 preached was situated a little east of til
 present Central park. The house wher
 Henry Ward Beecher was born, Jun
 "A, 1913, was that (which was remove
 from the northern corner of North an'
 Prospect streets, to Spring Hill, fe,
 years since We believe that the las
 time MT Beecher was in Litchfield wa
 about 30 years since, when he delivere
 lecture in the Congregational churc
 to aid in the purchase of it's organ.
 The Winsted correspondent of tn
 Waterbury American says "The grea ] t,.,xzal.,,oe loce NIacl1 hos aStla 6